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5044
Thanks Felix, I agree with you about 300, both the positive and negative points. I didn't want to suggest that people should start sending there favourite...
Keith Nellist
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Feb 1, 2008
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5045
... Well I certainly didn't expect everyone to agree. On this, which includes a lot of personal taste in film, style, 'historical' accuracy, realism, and...
Keith Nellist
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Feb 1, 2008
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5046
An excellent gauntlet to lay down, Keith! Let's see, here's ten for starters... [All perfectly worksafe, but I'll leave any indicators out here, to save...
Stewart Stansfield
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Feb 1, 2008
3:32 pm
5047
... I say, that squirrel is terrifying! Sam....
Sam Elliot
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Feb 1, 2008
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5048
Is it a feature of Gloranthan metaphysics that illusions are temporary realities, or are they just illusions? I know this is a very runequest- ...
Stuart Cogger
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Feb 1, 2008
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5049
... temporary ... runequest- ... wondering ... Gloranthan illusions have always been "summoned bits of reality" - a "illusionary" sword can cut you, and...
Roderick Robertson
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Feb 1, 2008
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5050
... possible ... crush ... can't ... up ... That's what I thought. This seems to make illusion one of the most potent weapons of war, especially when used by...
Stuart Cogger
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Feb 1, 2008
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5051
YGWV ... Or it would if it was easy to do and maintain. Creating this kind of thing is difficult, especially making something en masse. ... No. They all hate...
Greg Stafford
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Feb 1, 2008
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5052
... Not really any more powerful than any *other* magic wielded by mass formations of priests. Sunspears by Solar Priests, Strategic Comet bombing by Lunar...
Roderick Robertson
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Feb 1, 2008
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5053
... most ... of ... trickster ... Just a train of thought really, seeing if it leads me somewhere...At its basest I'm wondering if Lunar magicians are able to...
Stuart Cogger
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Feb 1, 2008
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5054
... I'd always envisioned that at Whitewall the Lunars just used the piled bodies of their dead to create the ramps. Always seemed cool to me. BKC...
Brian Curley
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Feb 1, 2008
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5055
... It ends up requiring a human sacrifice, but that wasn't intentional. I don't have KoS handy, but it says something like it should have been easy, but...
valkoharja
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Feb 1, 2008
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5056
Wind Children in the Shan Shan Mountains versus a Kralori Rocketship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTHypbLlkE --Peter Metcalfe...
Peter Metcalfe
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Feb 2, 2008
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5057
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qTE0KBres -- "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." -Bill Cosby...
Grimmund
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Feb 3, 2008
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5058
... Glorantha really is traditionally simulationist. RQ was perhaps the most classic example of simulationist tradition in mainstream gaming. And its clear...
David Cake
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Feb 4, 2008
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5059
... I think the gamist roots (ie boardgames WBRN, NG) of Glorantha are often overlooked. I often get the feeling that some elements of the detail of Glorantha...
Keith Nellist
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Feb 4, 2008
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5060
Sadly, I've created a Youtube playlist for Glorantha, but have hit a limit of 200 clips. I'm not going to post any here. Seems to me it would be more fun to ...
Keith Nellist
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Feb 4, 2008
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5061
... I'm a big fan John, you've got the best Gloranthan website on the net but I disagree with just about everything you've said here. Except for "essentialism"...
Tom
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Feb 5, 2008
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5062
Another brief note, with apologies that it will be a few days before I can respond in full ... ... Yes, it was me. In context, I intended it as a corrective to...
John Hughes
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Feb 5, 2008
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5063
... Where is this then? Hell, I'm a red blooded viking male (Finnish version) but any laments of lost male machismo are totally lost on me. If traditional...
valkoharja
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Feb 5, 2008
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5064
... By all means reply to that by private mail, or elsewhere, but not here. I fear this is rather drifting off-topic. Thanks. -- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ... ...
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Feb 5, 2008
10:16 pm
5065
Thanks mods - understood and no worries. I'll continue exploring some of these issues on my Live Journal - probably a better format for this sort of stuff...
John Hughes
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Feb 6, 2008
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5066
Maybe some of you will find this interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/05zeus.html?em&ex=1202446800&en=e78ab7fd757ed3c4&ei=5087%0A A possible...
Kenrae
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Feb 6, 2008
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5067
David ... I think the existing story makes a great backdrop for saga-style games (e.g. the Taming of Dragon Pass campaign which used PenDragon Pass rules)....
David Dunham
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Feb 7, 2008
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5068
Hi there, I am a relative novice in HeroQuest and Glorantha (currently playing a email game featuring Lunars) but I would like to know more. I have the...
Rob Thornton
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Feb 7, 2008
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5069
... It depends on what you want. Men of the Sea has a bunch of homelands spread around Glorantha. Blood Over Gold (in pdf only right now) has the Trader...
Paul King
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Feb 7, 2008
10:00 pm
5070
Hey Gloranthaphiles, I've been scouring the map for Ralios (p72-73 Genertala Book) and I can't find the County of Borin and the Democratic Republic of Wexten. ...
Lev Lafayette
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Feb 8, 2008
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5071
... Borin is also known as the County of Belstos (I imagine Borin is the old name and Belstos was the name adopted by residents who were tired of being...
Peter Metcalfe
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Feb 8, 2008
4:26 am
5072
... Ahh, yes there's a slight error in the book. Belstos is referred to both the region and city on the maps but in the text Borin is the region and Belstos is...
Lev Lafayette
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Feb 8, 2008
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5073
... Borin is the country in between Otkorion and Naskorion, its capital is Belstos. Wexten has not an official location on the map, but both Ttrtsky and i had ...
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